What would you do if you woke up in the middle of a grim city slum without your passport, your money, your luggage? Matt Reiser had to figure that out. He woke up staring into a group of onlookers, unable to communicate, and not sure where he was. All he had planned to do was fly in, hand deliver a message to his estranged son, and fly out. He lost the handwritten message with everything else.

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1979. Matt Reiser travels to West Africa in search of his son. He’s mugged upon arrival and loses everything. He must struggle through his sudden poverty, through unfamiliar territory, language, and culture, through cities, slums, jungle, and desert. On the way, he forms friends and enemies and meets a world he never wanted to discover. The new experiences force him to reevaluate his broken relationship with his son until they meet and face one another as never before.

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Take your first international trip to Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and upon arrival get mugged, lose everything, and wake up on a hard pack street in a grim city slum. What do you do? You can’t speak the language. Your pockets are empty. You’ve come to find your son as a last request from his dying mother.